Combined pencil sharpener and holder.



No. 780,032. PATENTED JAN. 17, 1905, G. W. GASTON.

COMBINED PENUIL SHARPBNER. AND HOLDER.

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COMBINED PENCIL SHAHPENER ANU HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 780,032, dated January17', 1905. Application filed March 30, 1904. Serial No. 200,740.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAnLns W. GASTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a CombinedPencil Sharpener and Holder, of which improvement the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an improved combined pencil sharpener andholder; and it con sists in the certain details of construction andcombination of parts, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved pencil sharpener and holder, the same being constructed andarranged in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthe same, showing the position of the parts when folded.

To construct a device in accordance with my invention, I provide a thinsheet-metal tube 1 of a suitable length and. diameter and arrange in oneend thereof a soft-rubber eraser 2. Formed near the to p of the tube 1are slots 3, the one directly opposite to the other and adapted toreceive the hooked ends 5 of a portion consisting of a semicircular end7, the two arms 4, the one parallel to the other and terminating in theabove hooked ends 5. Intermediate of these arms 4: and forming a part ofthe semicircular portion 7 is a sharpened edge forming a knife 6,whereby a point may be made on the pencil 8. This swinging knife portionabove described may be folded close to the holder 1, as shown at Fig. 52of the drawings, and confined in that position by an integral tongue 9,formed by slotting the holder, as at 11. Beneath this tongue 9 isanother,

10, bent slightly inward to make a frictional contact with a pencil 8inserted in the tube and hold the same therein.

To sharpen or form a point on a pencil, the implement is held in theleft hand and the pencil 8 inserted in the position shown in dottedlines at Fig. 1 of the drawings and drawn back and forward over theknife 6.

To fold the device, the knife portion is brought in contact with theholder and moved. forward in the direction of its length, thereby movingthe portion 7 beneath the tongue 9, as will be seen by reference to Fig.2 of the drawings.

Various slight modifications and changes may be made in the details ofconstruction without departing from the spirit of the invention.Therefore I do not wish to confine myself to that shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described combined pencil sharpener and holder, consisting ofa tube or holder open at each end adapted to receive an eraser andpencil, slots formed lengthwise in either side of said tube, the oneopposite to the other, the spring-tongues 9 and 10 integral with saidtube, the one 9 bent outwardly to form a keeper and the other 10 bentinwardly to hold an inserted pencil, in combination with apencilsharpener, consisting of a semicylindrical portion 7, the inneredge of which is sharpened to form a knife 6, and integral paralled armst, provided with inwardly-projecting hooks 5, to engage with the slotsof thesaid tube, all arranged and combined, substantially as described.

In testim ony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES WV. GASTON. In presence of- Farm 0. Hanan H. J. Laws.

